When Mario jumped up and punched that box covered in question marks he had no idea what sort of surprise awaited him inside, but when he discovered that it housed a puppet on a spring shaped just like him he wondered to himself “who could have thought up such a cruel prank?”

One big brute named Bowser immediately sprang to mind, but this trick seemed a little too obvious, and not deadly enough, to be one of his, so who has played this cruel trick on Mario? The world may never know…